On 18 Jul 2000 05:56:22 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote:
>: Because the rendered would have to find all intersections for every
>: object.

>  But that's what it currently does.

Are you sure? I thought it only did so for CSG.

>  How can it know which one of the intersections is the closest one if it
>didn't?

Dunno... I think I recall Pascal Massimino explaining how he finds the
first intersection with a julia and stops there. I think I also recall
seeing something like this for other objects in the source code. This
was over a year ago though, so I might be wrong here.


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